San Francisco Giants President of Baseball Operations Farhan Zaidi offered a positive update Friday regarding the team's talks with free-agent outfielder Bryce Harper.According to Ann Killion of theSan Francisco Chronicle Bobby Doerr Jersey , Zaidi said, "There's mutual interest on both sides."Henry Schulman and John Shea of theSan Francisco Chroniclereported that Zaidi, Giants manager Bruce Bochy and Giantspresident Larry Baer met with Harper in Las Vegas this week.The Giants are seemingly making a play for Harper after rarely being mentioned as a suitor for his services throughout the offseason.Harper has been closelylinkedto the Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago White Sox and San Diego Padres, as well as a potential return to the Washington Nationals.Along with All-Star infielder Manny Machado, Harper is somewhat surprisingly still available with spring training set to begin.The 26-year-old Harper is a six-time All-Star and one-time National League MVP during his seven-year MLB career, and he is coming off a season that saw him slash .249/.393/.496 with 34 home runs and a career-high 100 RBI.Since winning three World Series titles in five years from 2010-2014, the Giants have struggled in recent seasons.Over the past four campaigns Jimmie Foxx Jersey , San Francisco has just one playoff appearance. It has posted a losing record in each of the past two seasons as well, including a 73-89 mark in 2018.Last season, the Giants ranked 29th in Major League Baseball in scoring, 29th in home runs and 25th in batting average.Harper would provide the Giants with a massive offensive boost and a much-needed star in what may be the worst outfield in the entire league.With Harper, Buster Posey, Brandon Belt and Evan Longoria supporting a starting rotation led by Madison Bumgarner, the Giants would have a chance to be far more competitive in the talented NL West than they have been in recent years. A sportsbook has posted a prop on whether or not Tim Tebow will play in the majors this season.Tebow is listed at +160 to make the majors this season, giving him a 38.3% chance http://www.redsoxproshops.com/authentic-dustin-pedroia-jersey , according to the odds.The 30-year-old former Heisman Trophy winner has a .730 OPS in Double-A this season.Last April, rookie outfielder Tim Tebow dug in for his first at-bat for the Columbia Fireflies. I remember it very well because I was working for Minor League Baseball at the time. He was facing San Francisco Giants prospect Domenic Mazza (the 666th pick of the 2015 draft), and my boss was not amused.“There’s only one thing he can do here to ruin our night,” he said. “And quite possibly our lives.”The ex-Florida Gators quarterback did just that by taking Mazza 鈥?who ended up throwing a perfect game later in the month 鈥?deep to left-center field for a home run.Download The Action Network App to get real-time MLB odds and track all of your baseball bets.When the Mets signed Tebow in late 2016, it was derided as a jersey-selling publicity stunt. That is still the case, but some 15 months after the most famous minor-league dinger since Crash Davis set the record with his 247th career homer for the Asheville Tourists, things are getting quite real.One book has odds up on whether Tebow will play an MLB game in 2018. They list Yes at +160, which gives him an implied probability of 38.3% Carl Yastrzemski Jersey , and No at -180 (61.6%). Before the season, a prop that offered 6-1 odds for betting on the 2007 Heisman Trophy winner to make it to the majors by the end of 2019.Since I’m being told I need to break this bet down by the powers that be, here goes it.Tebow’s numbers with the Double-A Binghamton Rumble Ponies aren’t all that embarrassing. He’s slashing .271/.332/.398 with six homers and 36 RBI in 295 plate appearances. While those numbers aren’t bad 鈥?in fact, they earned him a spot in the Double-A All-Star Game 鈥?the former Denver Bronco has struck out in 35% of his trips to the dish this year. Yowza.To his credit, Tebow has improved on his numbers from 2017, when he slashed .226/.309/.347 with 24 doubles, eight homers and 52 RBIs in 486 plate appearances.Sign up for The Action Network’s daily newsletter to the best sports betting content delivered into your inbox each morning.However, the bigger part of this bet is the franchise that currently employs the sometimes missionary Ted Williams Jersey , sometimes football analyst and current minor-league outfielder the New York Mets. The Mets are currently 39-55 and have a worse record than the Miami Marlins.They’ve made fools of themselves on several occasions this season to the point where calling up Tebow in September, when rosters expand to 40 and the minor-league season ends, would be like the 10th-most embarrassing thing the Amazins have done in 2018.